Word: solemnizes
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...stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge, airy golden cage...
...Such giving may be called an incidental power, but when it is considered in its essential character, it may well be regarded as a major . . . corporate power. It is even more than that . . . it amounts to a solemn duty . . . I am strongly persuaded by the evidence that the only hope for the survival of the privately supported American college and university lies in the willingness of corporate wealth to furnish in moderation some support to institutions which are so essential to public welfare, and therefore . . . to corporate welfare. What promotes the general good inescapably advances the corporate weal...
...Hanlon's subjects range from a dipping, dabbing Ouzel to a mournful Solemn Heron and a whole series of popeyed, studious-looking little owls. His materials are chunks of volcanic rock found in California's hills. He chisels a bosomy pouter pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes...
...federal judge overlooked one thing: the Federal Constitution. When the Constitution was framed, the question was gravely argued whether God should be in the Constitution or not, and after a solemn debate a Supreme Being was deliberately voted out of it ... Plywacki would be a U.S. citizen today if Jefferson were alive and could change places with Judge McLaughlin...
...British-educated (at Harrow), both came to rule through family tragedy. Hussein's father, Talal (who himself succeeded the assassinated Abdullah, first King of Jordan), lost his throne because of insanity; Feisal's father Ghazi wrapped his racing car around a light pole when Feisal was a solemn-eyed moppet of three...